Photo: The German “Anschutz” will not stay in our hands for long // RIA Novosti Experts told Sobesednik.ru what the forced transition to domestic weapons threatens for Russian biathletes. The Kalashnikov arms concern has signed an agreement with the Russian Biathlon Union on cooperation in the development of rifles for biathlon. The task is to ensure that the Russian team uses domestic weapons without exception for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

On December 10, Roberto Panchvidze’s wallet was stolen in the elite World Class fitness center in north-west Moscow. As a law enforcement source told LifeNews, the wallet was in the men's locker room of the fitness center located on Pyatnitskoye Highway, and was stolen within 30 minutes while Panchvidze was in the gym. The victim called the police to the scene and wrote a statement.

Businessman Nikolai Kran, who testified against Sakhalin Governor Alexander Khoroshavin, died of a heart attack. According to media reports, Nikolai Kran died in Moscow at the age of 54. Lately he has been very ill. Nikolai Kran was involved in high-profile criminal cases. According to one of them, he was amnestied, according to the other, he was sentenced to three years probation. The businessman was supposed to stand trial on a case of tax evasion on a particularly large scale.

On the night of December 11, a fire in a private house in the Kirovsky district of Ufa killed four people, including two children. According to Svetlana Abramova, senior assistant to the head of the Investigative Department of the Russian Federation Investigative Committee for Bashkiria, the bodies were discovered after extinguishing a fire in a private house on Novomostovaya Street; the cause of death has not yet been established. An investigation is currently underway.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich announced the transition of the Platon system to postpayment mode in 2016. Earlier, Sobesednik.ru wrote about Arkady Dvorkovich’s statement that the Russian government is not going to abolish the toll system for heavy trucks on Russian roads . In his opinion, the operation of the system will not provoke an increase in food prices.

Photo: Crimea // Global Look Press Owners, by hook or by crook, are trying to sell real estate, which has not become more liquid in the “Russian” Crimea. There are a lot of apartments in Crimea for which the mortgage debt has not been repaid. According to the law, they cannot be sold: until 2018, by decision of the Crimean authorities, all mortgaged apartments are under arrest. Ukrainian banks have three years to collect loans and interest from debtors.

On December 11, the Prime Minister of Ukraine held an annual report to deputies of the Verkhovna Rada, which ended in a brawl. The Prime Minister of Ukraine was supposed to present a report on the implementation of his government's program of activities.

On December 10, one person died and five were trapped under rubble after an avalanche in the Murmansk region. As the FlashNord news agency reported, on December 10, an avalanche came down from the Maly Vudyavr slope in Khibiny in the Murmansk region. As a result, one person died. According to the latest data, from three to five tourists may be under the rubble. Search and rescue operations are underway.

American and Turkish intelligence agencies have warned of possible terrorist attacks against US targets in Turkey. The CIA and the Turkish National Intelligence Organization have established that Islamic State militants (this terrorist group is banned in Russia) are planning to attack American consulates, embassies, residences and military bases on Turkish territory. It is also possible that terrorists are planning to carry out terrorist attacks in tourist areas in Turkey.

Photo: Peter Mickley // Facebook A Catholic priest from New York spent parishioners' money on a BDSM lover, a vacation in Italy and illegal substances. A group of citizens asked a Manhattan court to hold local priest Peter Mickley accountable. According to the plaintiffs, the church minister over the past few years has spent about $1 million in donations from visitors to his temple to organize gay orgies with the participation of a muscular sadomasistic prostitute.

A jury in the American city of Oklahoma City found a former policeman guilty of raping 13 African-American women. Daniel Holtzclaw, 29, was found guilty of 18 of 36 charges. The jury deliberated for two days. Now the former policeman faces life imprisonment. The verdict will be announced in January. TASS reports that Daniel Holtzclaw's victims were poor women who had problems with the law. The law enforcement officer threatened them with further criminal prosecution.

Photo: Female Viagra works only in 10% of patients taking it // imagebroker/Siegfried Grassegger / Global Look Press In the wake of the release of Viagra for women on sale, scientists decided to determine how it affects patients. We are talking about the drug flibanserin, which has already begun to appear on pharmacy shelves.

The owner of the Nadezhda tanker, which ran aground off the coast of Sakhalin, is not cleaning up the consequences of the fuel spill. According to TASS, work to eliminate the consequences of the emergency is being carried out by the government of the Sakhalin region, the municipality and the Ministry of Emergency Situations. “Now law enforcement agencies are taking care of the owner,” said Deputy Chairman of the regional government Alexander Zhitkov.

Photo: Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika // Global Look Press Artdocfest will be able to show Alexei Navalny’s film “The Seagull” only online, Vitaly Mansky told Sobesednik.ru. President of the Artdocfest documentary film festival Vitaly Mansky said that the organizers received a letter from the Ministry of Culture warning them of responsibility for showing films without distribution certificates. Fine - from 50,000 to 100,000 rubles.

Photo: Chelyabinsk collectors jeopardized the work of the city’s largest hospital // Shutterstock Sobesednik.ru found out how collectors in Chelyabinsk terrorized a hospital because of a nurse’s debt and what they will get for it. In Chelyabinsk, something happened that thousands of debtors across the country could only dream of: they opened a criminal case against a debt collector who was extorting a debt from a local hospital nurse. I took five and returned ten Regional Hospital No.